The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-10-01
RritteH for The Arkdns0w IrdveIer. UNCLE SAM'S SAYINGS.
BY ED. R. PRITCHARD.

"A penny saved is a penny earned" provided it wasn't stolen.
 "Where there is 8 will there is a way" sounds we'll and looks all right in the copy books; but as an example ofbrilliant and yet condensed lying, it stands at the head of all the deceptive aphorisTs I have ever seen.
 It is a melancholy fact that the misfortunes of a great many people are due wholly to either their folly or their cussedness. On the other hand it is a fact no less to be deplored that there is large class of people who are industrious, ordinarily fru- gal, and in every sense good and use- ful citizens, whose savings are rot sufficient to enable them to withstand any protracted misfortune such as ill., ness or enforced idleness, without being brought to actual want.
 Writing the above, I am forcibly reminded that while idlencss is in itself curse, yet enforced idleness is one of the greatest, if not he great est, misfortunes that can befall anyone. It is certainly bad enough when a man is too lazy and vicious to work, but infinitely worse when he wants to work, is anxious to work, nay, al- most begs for it in order to keep wife and little ones from starving, and even then cannot obtain it.
 The kind of strikers who get along the best and who are always winners by their strikes, are those who strike out early for the workshops in the morning, and in the evening strike right out for home stopping at no saloons by the way.
 The barking dog is sometimes of excellent service, notwithstanding the old saying that he never bites.
 When was boy my ideas of rich people, gleaned from my Sunday school books, were that they as rule, were very miserable and much to be pitied lot of humanity. Observation in later years has taught me different; l am now willing to concede that there are some rich folks who have about as much fun ill this world as do the poor people.
 A great many strong takers are very weak thinkers.
 1 have about decided to offer handsome reward for the name and, if living, the address of the author of the first paragraph written about Chicago girls foot.
 Later-A friend to whom I have just suggested the idea, has mildly hinted tha: any fool ought to know that wherever the paragrapher referred to is now, that when he wrote the item he was living in St. Louis Still this will be,a pointer for auto- graph collectors.
 Be honest yourself, but watch the other fellow.
 A truthful paradoX-Goods sold at cost, usually pay fair profit.
 A frank, open-hearted sinner who keeps his colors flying so that every body knows him for just what he is, is not half so dangerous man in a community as is the hypocrite. How God must hate hypocrite. It is the meanest word in the language, and it should be, for it is and can be only applied to the most contemptible of human objects.
 1t seems to be the duty, or at least the object, of the moralist to decry the value of riches; to impress the idea that riches are source of misery and unhappiness, rather than of pleas ure and comfort. This doctrine is islander on the truth and an insult to human intelligence. My idea is, that seven persons out of ten would use wealth, if they had it, both wisely and well. To sum it up in a nut shell, money, instead of being the root of all evil, is, on the contrary, the real source of most worldly pleasures, and, when rightly used, the great mainstay of all human happiness.
 Saving the dollars, usually shrinks the heart.